Arunoday Singh

Profession: Actor

Biography:

Arunoday Singh is an Indian film actor. His debut movie was Sikandar (2009). Singh has appeared in Sudhir Mishra's Yeh Saali Zindagi (2011), Pooja Bhatt's Jism 2 (2012), and more recently in David Dhawan's Main Tera Hero (2014) and thriller film Pizza.
Arunoday was born in 17 February 1983 in a Rajput family based in Mendora village near Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh, India. He is a grandson of Arjun ...Arunoday Singh is an Indian film actor. His debut movie was Sikandar (2009). Singh has appeared in Sudhir Mishra's Yeh Saali Zindagi (2011), Pooja Bhatt's Jism 2 (2012), and more recently in David Dhawan's Main Tera Hero (2014) and thriller film Pizza.
Arunoday was born in 17 February 1983 in a Rajput family based in Mendora village near Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh, India. He is a grandson of Arjun Singh, an Indian politician who was the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh when the deadly gas leak from the Union Carbide factory occurred.
He is an alumnus of Brandeis University, having previously been educated at a boarding school at Kodaikanal, where he performed in school plays. According to him, it was after watching actor Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront (1954) that he decided to become an actor. After his graduation, he did a few courses in the New York Film Academy, and thereafter enrolled in the Acting Studio in New York, during the period he also performed in plays.
After finishing his studies he started giving auditions, and finally made his debut with Sikandar (2009), directed by Piyush Jha, playing a Kashmiri freedom fighter. His second film was Anil Kapoor's home production Aisha (2010), an adaptation of the novel, Emma by Jane Austen, with Sonam Kapoor. Also in the same year, he appeared in Vinay Shukla's take on Gender and sexuality in Mirch through a collage of five stories, with Raima Sen and Konkana Sharma, where he played the central character of a struggling film director.